In muck terminology a vehicle is something you can travel in, this maybe anything from a spaceship, a subspace containment field or a horse. The vehicle is the item you wish people to see, such as in our example, a horse. While this is not overly complicated it does use a number of ideas covered in basic building, and building. You should really read these before following the instructions, in case you make a mistake. These commands are the commands to be used on Camelot. While these commands will work on any other fuzzball based muck (such as furry), there are occasionally differences. If a command fails, please check for the appropiate variation.

This is an overview of how its done, without explanation, as the explanations are really covered in the building. A brief one liner is written so you can see what stages we have gone through to make a vehicle.

• Create your horse
  • @create Horse
• Drop your horse as a number of commands get upset if you are holding it during creation. Find the dbref of your home by doing ex me replace the #nn with the dbref of your home.
• drop horse
• @link horse=#nn
• Give it the flags it needs, V=Vehicle - so you may enter it, X=XForcible - so you may command it, Z=Zombie/listener - so it can hear what's going on around it
  • @set horse=V
  • @set horse=X
  • @set horse=Z
• Create a way on/in your horse
  • @action mount horse=horse
  • @link mount horse=horse
• Get 'in' your vehicle
  • mount horse
• Describe what its like inside/on the horse - the muf command allows you to see outside your vehicle.
  • @idesc here=You sit on the back of a large horse, he stands 16 hands high and is a form of shirehorse, he's strong and healthy and very friendly, he snuggles as you pat his head. Use the commands 'move <direction>' to move around and 'dismount' to dismount this fine steed.
• Create the other actions (replace #db with the dbref of the horse, and #xxx with the dbref of the move command you make in here)
  • @action move=here
  • @link move=$donothing
  • @succ move={force:#db,{&arg}}
  • @flock horse=#xxxx
  • (This force lock - flock - means that no one can do '@force horse=:runs off' and effectively make your horse do actions.

You now have a fully functional horse, however, when you are riding it, you will be able to hear people around you talking, but they wont be able to hear you.

• This next bit is only necessary if you dont want people to type leave to exit the vehicle.
  • @action dismount=here
  • @link dismount=$vehicle/objexit
  • @set dismount=goto:#nn

Camelot muck would like to request that you only make vehicles which fit in a medieval theme, therefore animals and carts are OK, cars, planes etc are not. It is also requested that you restrict yourself to one, if you are building an area which requires them, you should discuss this with a wizard.

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